Serena Williams has teamed up with Victoria Mboko in doubles for her sensational comeback at the 2026 Queen\u2019s Club Championships, and the duo have learned their first opponents.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old, who has won an Open Era record 23 Grand Slam women\u2019s singles titles, has not played since the 2022 US Open having announced she would \u201cevolve away\u201d from tennis<\/p>\n
There had been strong speculation that Williams would make a comeback since it was reported in December that she had re-entered the anti-doping testing pool.<\/p>\n
On 1 June, Williams<\/a> announced she would make her return to the sport at the grass-court WTA 500 tournament at the Queen\u2019s Club in London.<\/p>\n It was confirmed that Williams and 19-year-old Canadian Mboko, the world No 9, had received a wildcard for the women\u2019s doubles event at Queen\u2019s.<\/p>\n The doubles draw has now been made, and Williams and Mboko will face Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe, the No 3 seeds, in the first round.<\/p>\n \u2018If Serena Williams is trying to win again in her comeback, I\u2019d advise her to give it up\u2019<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n Serena Williams hailed for making a wise decision already ahead of return to tennis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n In a statement, Williams said: \u201cQueen\u2019s Club feels like the perfect place to begin this next chapter.<\/p>\n \u201cGrass has given me some of the most meaningful moments of my career, and I\u2019m excited to be back competing on one of the sport\u2019s most iconic stages.\u201d<\/p>\n Laura Robson, the tournament director of the Queen\u2019s Club women\u2019s event, said: \u201cSerena Williams is one of the greatest athletes the world has ever seen, and we\u2019re delighted that she will be making her return to tennis at the LTA\u2019s HSBC Championships.\u201d<\/p>\n In a social media post, world No 9 Mboko commented on her partnership with Williams.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Queen is back,\u201d wrote the Canadian.<\/p>\n \u201cAn honour to share the court with one of the greatest athletes of all time this week. Even more excited to play doubles together! Tennis is pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n Serena Williams has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles, all with her sister Venus, while she has secured 23 WTA Tour doubles titles overall.<\/p>\n The American has also signed up to play doubles at the WTA 500 grass-court event in Berlin later this month.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: How Serena and Venus Williams could stand in the way of Maja Chwalinska\u2019s Wimbledon dream<\/a> The post Serena Williams and Victoria Mboko\u2019s first doubles opponents at Queen\u2019s Club revealed<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Serena Williams has teamed up with Victoria Mboko in doubles for her sensational comeback at the 2026 Queen\u2019s Club Championships, and the duo have learned their first opponents. The 44-year-old, who has won an Open Era record 23 Grand Slam women\u2019s singles titles, has not played since the 2022 US Open having announced she would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis\u00a0News<\/h2>\n
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